Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion"Austrian Expressionism proclaims that art itself is a violation of society's conventions and norms. No other artist in early twentieth-century Vienna depicted the body with such radical candor as Egon Schiele. A preoccupation with Eros, sexuality, and death pervades his entire oeuvre, his insatiable curiosity and new developments in erotic and psychiatric photography driving him to explore the shift in the relationship between the visible and the invisible, the depictable and the undepictable in launching his pictorial fantasy of the bodies of men and women in general and the artist in particular. But despite the uncompromising truthfulness of his allegedly pornographic imagery, the visual enjoyment of the work of this consummate artist transcends the opposition between sensual arousal and aesthetic perception."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Biographical Notes | 7 |
Paintings and Works on Paper 19101917 | 25 |
Affront to Decency | 45 |
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1910 Black crayon aesthetic Albert Paris Albert Paris Gütersloh Anton Räderscheidt art critic Arthur Roessler Auguste Rodin Austrian Expressionism Back View beauty body language Charcoal contemporary culture decency Degas depictions Double Self-Portrait Edith Schiele Eduard Egon Schiele exhibition face facial expression figures gestures gouache on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina Gustav Klimt Gütersloh hand heightening on paper human iconography ideal illus images immorality Kokoschka Krumau Kunst Leopold Museum Ludwig Marcuse Male Nude masturbating models moral motif Munich Museum of Art naked Nebehay as note norm nude drawings Nude Self-Portrait obscene nude Oil on canvas Oskar Oskar Kokoschka Otto Dix paintings pathological Pencil and gouache Pencil and watercolor Pencil on paper photography pictorial poses Private collection Opposite Privatstiftung psyche repertoire Richard Gerstl Rodin Schiele's Schiele's drawings Schiele's nudes Schiele's self-portraits Seated Female Nude Self-Portrait Seminude sexual studio suffering taboo ugliness Vienna Secession Viennese watercolor watercolor on paper white heightening